Figure toy



May 12, 1925. ,1,537,363

H.H.MARHN,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FIGURE TOY.

Application led June 19, 1924. Serial No. 721,083.

To all 107mm it may concern.'

Be it known that I, HENRY H. MARTIN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Figure Toys, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates generally to toys and more particularly to an amusing figured toy representing boys playing what commonly known as leap frog, my object being the provision of a simple spring actuated mechanism for so manipulating the figures as to continually move the same in carrying out the representation of each in turn leaping over the back of the other.

A further object is the provision of a simple inexpensive device of this nature as well as one which will be strong, durable and highly amusing.

In the accompanying drawing which illustrates my present invention and forms a part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a front elevation showing my improved toy, and

Figure 2 is a side view thereof.

Referring now to these figures I preferably utilize a support including a horizontal base 10. from which spaced uprights 11 rise, the uprights having a rigid spacing connection at 12 and forming bearing supports for driving and driven shafts 13 and 141 in vertically spaced parallel relation. On the former of these shafts is a spring motor 15 which actuates a gear 16 and which is wound by means of a key 17 and its stem.

The driven shaft 14 has a small gear 18 engaged by the driving gear 16 to rotate the driven shaft and is further provided with a gear 19 of a train of gears connecting the same with a balance shaft 2O havinga balance wheel 21.

On one end of the driven shaft 14 forwardly of thel upright 11 of the frame is centrally secured a figure supporting arm 22 having at its opposite ends forwardly projecting studs Q3 upon the latter of which the figures 24 are loosely swivelled adjacent to the centers of these bodies and just sufficiently above said centers to insure npright position of the figures at all times. These figures are disposed on the studs 23 in slightly spaced vertical planes whereby they may freely pass one another in slightly overlapping relation in their swinging movement with the rotation of the supporting arm 22, thus affording quite life-like representation of boys playing leap frog.

The last mentioned effect is increased by the provision of a spring brake member 25 which is anchored at one end upon the front face of the forward upright 11 of the frame with its free end extending outwardly for engagement by each end of the figure supporting arm 22 as such end moves downwardly in the rotation of the arm. Thus upon each engagement of the supporting arm 22 with the brake me-mber the rotation of the arm is momentarily checked and this check occurs immediately preceding the upward movement of each of the figures over the other. Pressure of the actuating spring coupled with the momentum of the balance wheel 21 operates to carry the supporting arm past the brake member and it is obvious that the latter cooperates to some extent at least with the balance wheel in preventing too rapid rotation of the figures.

My invention thus provides a toy which will be highly amusing, which is simple and inexpensive, and which will be strong and durable in use.

I claim:

1. A- figure toy including a driven shaft, a figure supporting arm secured at its center to said shaft and having outstanding studs at its opposite ends, figures swivelled on the said studs and slightly overlapping one another in spaced planes, means for rotating the driven shaft, and means controlling such rotation and arranged to intermittently check the rotation as described.

2. A figure toy including a frame, a driven shaft supported horizontally in the frame, a supporting` arm secured at its center to the driven shaft, figures having swivelled supports at the opposite ends of said arm and disposed in slightly overlapping relation and spaced apart, a spring motor supported in the frame and geared to the driven shaft and means carried by the frame and support for rotating.;` the driven shaft, and l0 a yielding spring.;` brake member CarrierL by' the said support and disposed in the path vof rotation of said supporting; arm :tor eugagement by the vends thereof, Whey-eb;7 to intermittently cheek rotation of tbe supporting arm as described.

HENRY H. B'R 

